Yay, its the weekend! Here are the longer form reads I’ve saved up all week:

• Is Life a Ponzi Scheme? (Boston Review[1])
• The Great Story: In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed (Columbia Journalism Review[2])
• Thinking Outside the (Big) Box (NY Times[3])
• Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (Ars Technica[4])
• The Agony of Frank Luntz (The Atlantic[5])
• The uncomfortable truth about Brad Stone’s Amazon book (Fortune[6])
• The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen (Slate[7])
• How Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg learned to focus on the bottom line (WSJ[8])
• We need to talk about TED (The Guardian[9])
• This Is Why Einstein’s Brain Was Better Than Yours (io9[10])